On September 10, 2014, 16-year-old Vernon Rogers was found shot to death on the sidewalk near Corey Avenue and Overland Street in Braddock, Pennsylvania. He was discovered about 5:10 a.m. after police had earlier responded to reports of gunfire around 2 a.m. but did not find anything then. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Vernon as an African American male from East Liberty.

Neighbors reported hearing between seven and nine shots in the quiet neighborhood, a detail that alarmed residents and drew a public response from Mayor John Fetterman, who expressed disappointment that Braddock’s relatively peaceful year had been broken by this killing. No arrests or suspects were immediately identified; the Allegheny County Police Homicide Unit asked anyone with information to come forward. Vernon was born March 20, 1998, and attended Rapah Academy in his elementary years.

Does anyone have information about Vernon, his movements that night, or the Corey Avenue and Overland Street area in the hours before dawn?